Relation and Duties of Members to Pastor Emeritus

Article XXII Section 1The Title of Mother Changed. SECTION 1. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five,
loyal Christian Scientists had given to the author
of their textbook, the Founder of Christian Science, the individual, endearing term of Mother. At first Mrs. Eddy objected to being called thus,
but afterward consented on the ground that this
appellative in the Church meant nothing more
than a tender term such as sister or brother. In
the year nineteen hundred and three and after,
owing to the public misunderstanding of this
name, it is the duty of Christian Scientists to
65drop the word mother and to substitute Leader,
already used in our periodicals.

Article XXII Section 2A Member not a Leader. SECT. 2. A
member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., shall not be called
Leader by members of this Church, when this
term is used in connection with Christian
Science.

Article XXII Section 3Obedience Required. SECT. 3. It shall be
the duty of the officers of this Church, of the
editors of The Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Der Herold, of the members of the
Committees on Publication, of the Trustees of
The Christian Science Publishing Society, and
of the Board of Education promptly to comply
with any written order, signed by Mary Baker
Eddy, which applies to their official functions. Disobedience to this By-Law shall be sufficient
cause for the removal of the offending member
from office.

The vacancy shall be supplied by a majority
vote of the Christian Science Board of Directors, and the candidate shall be subject to the
approval of Mary Baker Eddy.

Article XXII Section 4Understanding Communications. SECT. 4. If the Clerk of this Church shall receive a com66munication from the Pastor Emeritus which he
does not fully understand, he shall inform her
of this fact before presenting it to the Church
and obtain a clear understanding of the matter,
— then act in accordance therewith.

Article XXII Section 5Interpreting Communications. SECT. 5. If
at a meeting of this Church a doubt or disagreement shall arise among the members as to
the signification of the communications of the
Pastor Emeritus to them, before action is taken
it shall be the duty of the Clerk to report to her
the vexed question and to await her explanation
thereof.

Article XXII Section 6Reading and Attesting Letters. SECT. 6. When a letter or a message from the Pastor
Emeritus is brought before a meeting of this
Church, or she is referred to as authority for
business, it shall be the duty of the Church to
inquire if all of the letter has been read, and to
require all of it to be read; also to have any
authority supposed to come from her satisfactorily attested.

Article XXII Section 7Unauthorized Reports. SECT. 7. Members
of this Church shall not report on authority an
order from Mrs. Eddy that she has not sent,
either to the Boards or to the executive bodies
67of this Church. The Pastor Emeritus is not to
be consulted on cases of discipline, on the cases
of candidates for admission to this Church, or
on the cases of those on trial for dismissal from
the Church.

Article XXII Section 8Private Communications. SECT. 8. A strictly
private communication from the Pastor Emeritus
to a member of her Church shall not be made
public without her written consent.

Article XXII Section 9Unauthorized Legal Action. SECT. 9. A
member of this Church shall not employ an attorney, nor take legal action on a case not provided for in its By-Laws — if said case relates
to the person or to the property of Mary Baker
Eddy — without having personally conferred
with her on said subject.

Article XXII Section 10Duty to God. SECT. 10. Members of this
Church who turn their attention from the divine
Principle of being to personality, sending gifts,
congratulatory despatches or letters to the Pastor
Emeritus on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year,
or Easter, break a rule of this Church and are
amenable therefor.

Article XXII Section 11Opportunity for Serving the Leader. SECT. 11. At the written request of the Pastor Emeritus, Mrs. Eddy, the Board of Directors shall
68immediately notify a person who has been a
member of this Church at least three years to
go in ten days to her, and it shall be the duty
of the member thus notified to remain with Mrs.
Eddy three years consecutively. A member who
leaves her in less time without the Directors’
consent or who declines to obey this call to
duty, upon Mrs. Eddy’s complaint thereof shall
be excommunicated from The Mother Church. Members thus serving the Leader shall be paid
semi-annually at the rate of one thousand dollars yearly in addition to rent and board. Those
members whom she teaches the course in Divinity, and who remain with her three consecutive
years, receive the degree of the Massachusetts
Metaphysical College.

Article XXII Section 12Location. SECT. 12. Rev. Mary Baker Eddy
calls to her home or allows to visit or to locate
therein only those individuals whom she engages
through the Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church. This By-Law takes
effect on Dec. 15, 1908.

Article XXII Section 13Agreement Required. SECT. 13. When the
Christian Science Board of Directors calls a student in accordance with Article XXII, Sect. 11,
of our Church Manual to the home of their
69Leader, Mrs. Eddy, said student shall come under
a signed agreement to remain with Mrs. Eddy
if she so desires, during the time specified in the
Church Manual.

Article XXII Section 14Incomplete Term of Service. SECT. 14. If a
student who has been called to serve our Leader
in accordance with Article XXII, Sect. 11, of
the Church Manual leaves her before the expiration of the time therein mentioned such student
shall pay to Mrs. Eddy whatsoever she may
charge for what she has taught him or her during the time of such service.

Article XXII Section 15Help. SECT. 15. If the author of the Christian Science textbook call on this Board for
household help or a handmaid, the Board shall
immediately appoint a proper member of this
Church therefor, and the appointee shall go immediately in obedience to the call. “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me.” (Matt. 10:37.)

Article XXII Section 16Students with Mrs. Eddy. SECT. 16. Students employed by Mrs. Eddy at her home shall
not take care of their churches or attend to other
affairs outside of her house.

Article XXII Section 17Mrs. Eddy’s Room. SECT. 17. The room in
The Mother Church formerly known as “Mother’s
Room” shall hereafter be closed to visitors.

70Article XXII Section 18Pastor Emeritus to be Consulted. SECT. 18. The Mother Church shall not make a church By-Law, nor enter into a business transaction with a
Christian Scientist in the employ of Rev. Mary
Baker Eddy, without first consulting her on said
subject and adhering strictly to her advice thereon.